Elon Musk

*billions

Next episode of the "Twitter Files" is up, from asshole Michael Shellenberger. Same as before, shows Twitter employees having serious conversations about how to handle Trump and his threats to public order. Right-wing Twitter is reacting as usual (everyone involved should be locked up, shot, etc).

This whole thing where we're all subjected to Elon Musk's jokes as a condition of being on Twitter has strong overtones of the Vogon poetry plotline from Hitchhiker's Guide.

— Sandra Newman (@sannewman) December 11, 2022

haha

lol

With the "prosecute Fauci" turn seems like he might be a couple of 8-balls away from going full Kanye and tweeting out the Protocols of the Elders of Zion 280 characters at a time.

*4000

ya i'm kinda ll for crackpot genius billionaires actually doing interesting stuff, up until they become str8 up supervillains obv

― darraghmac, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 8:23 AM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah like Trump there's something spooky about his straight up nihilism. like trying to fan the flames of the nonsense pedophilia accusations against Yoel Roth, a guy who was working for him until recently. or just blatantly lying about shit like "ah yes when I took over Twitter I was laser focused on taking down child porn, quite frankly it's disgusting how long they let this slide". the difference is Musk has this pathological need to be seen as funny and smart which makes him such a pathetic villain. there's none of that weird charisma that Trump has. he couldn't have an original or clever thought to save his life. he's such a completely unappealing person. even the late night shows can't find anything funny about him.

even the late night shows can't find anything funny about him.

This part says more about the late night shows than Musk tbh.

fuck both of these guys, obv, but lmao nonetheless

Was at the Dave Chapelle show at SF tonight and who comes on but Elon Musk!

A good 80% of the stadium boos. 18k people. and he withers. Like absolutely turns into a corncob.

“What should I say??” He says

Dave tries to salvage the situation but to no avail

— james yu (@jamesjyu) December 12, 2022

Dave chappelle brought up Elon musk up on stage at the chase center. Had to pry the yonder for this ahaha pt 1 pic.twitter.com/zCYNUf3Hhz

— Cleo PatrA (@CleoPat48937885) December 12, 2022

second account there seems to have been blasted, is musk trying to wipe the footage?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdBga225HBk

second account there seems to have been blasted, is musk trying to wipe the footage?

I really hope so, that always goes well

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-booed-stadium-crowd-dave-chappelle-sf-boo-1849881192

Genuinely surprised that Chapelle’s current fans don’t like Musk. Not surprised at all that Chapelle himself likes Musk.

Did he think he would be hailed the conquering hero? This is what happens when a comedian brings up a drunk heckler and gives them the mic, don't know how Chappelle thought this was going to go.

Followed by frankly scary tweets along these lines:

Many battles remain, but, yes, the tide is starting to turn on the mortal threat to civilization that is the woke mind virus

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 12, 2022

brb, got to go stock my woke bunker.

Imagine saying the words “ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for the richest man in the world!” and expecting not-boos

the guy's tax rate should be a million percent

*entire audience boos me because they hate me*

it was the woke mind virus

kinda ironic that Twitter's algorithm, even before he took over, was designed specifically to make guys like Elon feel like the most popular people on the planet and that concerns like "the woke mind virus" and panicking over pronouns were real things that people actually cared about

if one were to go solely off of the Elon tweets itt, it would appear that the only people still on Twitter are creeps, conspiracy theorists, bullies and, basically, right-wing trolls.

Technically, it was 90% cheers & 10% boos (except during quiet periods), but, still, that’s a lot of boos, which is a first for me in real life (frequent on Twitter).

It’s almost as if I’ve offended SF’s unhinged leftists … but nahhh.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 12, 2022

Technically Dave did not specify what noise he wanted the ladies and gentlemen to make

I suppose he's right that SF "leftists" at a Chappelle show are, indeed, probably pretty unhinged.

they weren't booing, they were asking for jobs at Booooo-ring

even chappelle was booing

Man goes to doctor, says woke mind virus must be defeated. Doctor says treatment is simple, great clown Dave Chappelle is in town tonight, go and see him. Man bursts into tears, says, but doctor, I am elon musk

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) December 12, 2022

Hey Elon, if it was 90% cheers then why did you stand there like an ass, helpless, until you walked off the stage humiliated?

Reminds of the time we opened for papa roach and limp bizkit

— eve6 (@Eve6) December 12, 2022

genuinely funny that Musk genuinely did not anticipate getting booed like that and therefore had no response to it. just letting the boos win

also funny that they're nuking the accounts posting the videos which makes it abundantly clear to people that Elon is embarrassed by this before they've even seen the videos

Fake boos!

hes over confident from the media cupping his ball ten years straight and becoming the richest man in the world, thinks he can do no wrong, as evidenced by all of his recent behavior

yeah it's insane that this dude's PR team was able to actually successfully frame him in the media as the one selfless billionaire doing cool new stuff and he threw it all away to be Ian Miles Cheong's top reply guy (along with 44 billion dollars lmao)

"this tweet contains potentially sensitive content" jesus christ just take the L man

put this in a gold frame in a gallery https://t.co/hU4DIhbvLc pic.twitter.com/yRYFkO91nH

— Donna Respirator (@AliceAvizandum) December 12, 2022

Twitter Files Part 56231: The Elon Booing Event Decision

"Internal communications show Twitter employees worried that their boss would become emotional and 'fire everyone' if the video was not suppressed."

yeah it's insane that this dude's PR team was able to actually successfully frame him in the media as the one selfless billionaire doing cool new stuff and he threw it all away to be Ian Miles Cheong's top reply guy (along with 44 billion dollars lmao)

― frogbs, Monday, December 12, 2022 10:15 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

notable that he was pitched as saving humanity via electric cars and rocket ships and now hes saving humanity by combating the woke mind virus, his whole schtick is so superficial, and it worked beautifully, when primarily directed at the business press lol

Chappelle should pivot to working corporate events exclusively

chapelle in his prime wouldve absolutely cooked musk if given the opportunity now hes like hey the richest man in the world my friend, sad

(not to say he had perfect politics before just that hed see musk for the nerd he is)

"Are you ready for some COMEDY?! Because I have a surprise for YOU!"

*brings out the unfunniest dork you've ever seen*

— Cohl! Face! Killah! (@RuckCohlchez) December 12, 2022

Going absolutely crazy when the stand-up comic I paid to see brings out a weird twitchy rich guy in a leather jacket and has him walk around for a while. The whole crowd chanting "more of this" at deafening volumes.

— David Roth (@david_j_roth) December 12, 2022

pry the yonder?

Mostly sad to see Chappelle not going with the energy of the crowd and turning it into an Elon roast. 'It's mostly the poors up in the cheap seats, sir.'

Elon Musk shouting "I'm rich, bitch," while the sound people at Chappelle's show honk a horn to drown out the boos from the crowd is one of the saddest videos I've ever seen. https://t.co/tJHFRhKU3w pic.twitter.com/SeeLSZG93h

— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) December 12, 2022

this is elon's corncob moment